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The House of Commons voted 322-0 for Liberal member of parliament Sameer Zuberi's bill, which also called on the government to recognize that Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims who have fled to third countries face "pressure and intimidation" by China to return. While the passage of the bill does not compel Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government to follow the proposal, the undivided support is likely to put pressure on his minority government to take action.

Human rights groups estimate more than one million Uyghurs are currently kept in prison-like indoctrination camps, which Beijing calls "re-education camps." Most of the Uyghurs and other Turkic communities have fled to Muslim-majority countries like Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia since 2016.

OTTAWA [Canada], Jan 31: Liberal MP Sameer Zuberi called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet to support a motion to make room in its refugee intake for 10,000 Uyghur and other Turkic groups who fled China and are now living in third countries like Turkey. “We support this motion. Uyghurs, along with other minorities in the region, have suffered grave human rights violations from the Chinese government,” said Zuberi. Zuberi’s resolution takes its cue from Parliament’s 2021 declaration that China […]

A Federal Court has struck down an application from a Uyghur rights group that sought to sue the federal ...

Following Parliament's declaration of China's repression of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims as genocide, a Liberal MP is ...